different between billable vs chargeable

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bill +? -able

billable (not comparable)

billable (plural billables)

Something that is billed for.
- 2008, Tad Crawford, AIGA Professional Practices in Graphic Design
  […] time spent building and encoding a Web site and similar billables should be calculated as services and so noted in all contracts and invoice terms.

charge +? -able

chargeable (comparative more chargeable, superlative most chargeable)

(of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
- 2006, Michael Thomas, David Goy, Stamp Duty Land Tax (page 172)
  In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT.
(rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
imputable
- 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common
  These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.

1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane
The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . .

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